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You can't admire and emulate without being able to see first. Learning drawing is for designers as learning Lisp is for programmers. You may never use it, but
by SkyMarshal 13y ago
You can't admire and emulate without being able to see first.
Learning drawing is for designers as learning Lisp is for programmers. You may never use it, but some of the skills it teaches are transferrable no matter what the tool or medium, and will make you fundamentally better.
- radley 13y agoNot saying drawing doesn't help. I am saying you don't tell someone brand new to programming to start with Lisp. You tell them to start with something simple like HTML. There's equivalents in design.
- SkyMarshal 13y agoNo, I don't tell them to start with HTML at all. That's not programming, that's markup/text formatting. I do in fact tell them to start with Lisp, Scheme more precisely. Best learning language available [1]. Real learning is about understanding the underlying concepts and being able to reapply them in different contexts. That's what Lisp/Scheme (and C for imperative concepts and memory management) does for learning programming, and drawing does for learning design. [1]: http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html